Arnold & Porter LLP San Francisco Practice type: litigation
Arguedas, Cassman & Headley LLP Berkeley Practice type: litigation
California Attorney General San Francisco
K&L Gates LLP San Francisco Practice type: litigation
Law Practice
Proliferation of paralegals signals shift in legal services
By Alexandra Schwappach
Some attorneys aren't so enchanted by the rise in paralegal employment. Some say paralegals are part of a growing wave of nonl...
While it seems an important concern to voters, neither candidate is coming forth with any serious ideas - saying only that the...
During the last few months opponents have been beating the drum in Sacramento that major surgery needs to be performed on Prop...
Rather than being a "landmark decision" or a "game changer" for the defense bar, Sargon would be better characterized a...
Litigation
In withdrawing from fraud case, Keker lashes out at federal judge and Chevron
By Fiona Smith
Famed San Francisco litigator John Keker is throwing in the towel in a case fighting Chevron, but he's not going quietly. ...
The West Coast's largest provider of laundry facilities management services for multifamily residences, WASH Multifamily Laund...
Cooley LLP is representing Tableau Software Inc. and Fenwick & West LLP the underwriters in Tableau's initial public offer...
An Orange County lawyer must spend six months in a halfway house and six months on home confinement for paying kickbacks to ad...
Twelve years after founding a group to help free wrongfully convicted prisoners, Kathleen "Cookie" Ridolfi is passing the torc...
Intellectual Property
Google subsidiary abused patents, European Commission rules
By Kevin Lee
Google Inc.-owned Motorola Mobility wrongly used its standard essential patents to seek and enforce a sales ban in Germany aga...
Litigation
Federal judge certifies shareholder class action against Diamond Foods
By Hadley Robinson
A San Francisco federal judge Monday certified a class of shareholders that claim Diamond Foods Inc. failed to disclose the ac...
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued Monster Beverage Corp. on Monday, claiming the company is improperly pushing h...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court hands big victory to cities, counties that ban pot dispensaries
By Emily Green
The state's medical marijuana laws only immunize medical marijuana patients from criminal prosecution, the state Supreme Court...
Many books and articles in the last few years describe a "profession in crisis" with no shortage of demons to blame. By Rachel...
The situation at hand could be the beginning of billionaire Bernie Ecclestone's long slide from quasi-royalty to fallen angel....
A year and a half after President Barack Obama signed a patent reform bill into law, Congress is considering new legislation t...
Government
Groups push for ballot initiative to lift cap on medical malpractice lawsuit payouts
By Paul Jones
A coalition behind the as-of-yet unwritten initiative says it intends to follow through with the effort to redress the unfair ...
Judge Charles Haines says there's been progress in equality for gays since he took the bench.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Immigration reform being discussed in Washington could bring protected legal status to millions of workers in California. Nota...
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Apricus Biosciences Inc. San Diego ...
There are two other important points the Supreme Court should consider when deciding whether Moradi-Shalal v. Fireman's Fun...
On April 5, SCAQMD passed a rule establishing notification and reporting requirements for both oil and gas well operators and ...
Labor/Employment
New First Amendment case poses existential threat to public employee unions
By Ben Armisteadn
A scarcely-noticed lawsuit filed last week in federal district court in Los Angeles is challenging California's system for col...
California Courts of Appeal
1st District Court of Appeal will soon have two vacancies
By Emily Green
Justice James R. Lambden of the 1st District Court of Appeal has told colleagues he plans to step down from the bench in Augus...
UC Hastings and UCSF signed an affiliation agreement recently to aid students entering legal and medical professions who need ...